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and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
This is BBC Newsline and these are the headlines this Tuesday | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
Nine people are being questioned about arson attacks on serving | :00:21. | :00:33. | |
police officers. I will have the latest. | :00:34. | :00:33. | |
A report from a policy group set up and run | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
by the Department of Education criticises the impact | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
Sit back and it is all over the place at the moment, it needs | :00:43. | :00:57. | |
sorted. We need an Assembly. Best themed hotel in Belfast - | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
Could it look like this? And wind and rain is the them | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
in the coming days, with Storm Doris I'll have your weather | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
details shortly. Nine people have been arrested | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
by detectives who are investigating a spate of arson attacks | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
on the homes and cars The group is being questioned | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
at Musgrave police station in Belfast, from where our reporter | :01:20. | :01:27. | |
Catherine Morrison has this report. This all began with a series | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
of early morning raids in Larne, Lisburn, | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon. Six men and three | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
women were arrested. They were brought here | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
to Musgrave Street police station for questioning | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
on a number of offences including arson, | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
arson with intent to endanger life and conspiracy to | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
cause an explosion. The PSNI has told us the operation | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
is in connection with targeting serving police | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
officers in arson attacks. We do not have many details | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
on this but what we do know is that between April and July | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
of last year, in the Banbridge, Portadown and Gilford areas, | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
a number of officers had their vehicles and homes set on fire | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
and in some cases destroyed. This morning, at | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
the same time as the arrests were made, searches | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
were carried out and a number of items taken away | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
for further examination. The police haven't done any | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
interviews about this but in a statement, DI Keith Gawley | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
described these as serious, life endangering attacks on officers | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
and appealed for anyone with any information about the attacks | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
to contact detectives. He also revealed there | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
is a drugs links to the case and these 9 people are also | :02:39. | :02:49. | |
being questioned about possessing class A, B and C drugs | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
and intending to supply them. Five pipe bomb devices | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
and a quantity of ammunition have been found during a security | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
alert in West Belfast. They were removed | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
by bomb disposal teams after the search of a house | :03:02. | :03:03. | |
in Conway Street. Police say their research was part | :03:04. | :03:17. | |
of an investigation into organised criminality by the INLA. | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
A teenager accused of the manslaughter of a County Fermanagh | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
Thirteen year old Oisin McGrath from Belcoo died following a playground | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
Here's our South-West reporter Julian Fowler. | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
19-year-old Francis McDermott is accused of unlawfully killing Oisin | :03:31. | :03:41. | |
McGrath in February 2015. When that charge was put to him today he | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
replied not guilty. The family were court and heard the defence | :03:49. | :03:56. | |
solicitors the case would be conducted in a way to minimise their | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
pain. Oisin McGrath Was taken to hospital following an incident in | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
the playground at Saint Michaels College. At the time of the incident | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
Francis McDermott was on the sixth form. It was said that an unusual | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
set of circumstances Oisin McGrath led to the collapse and death of. He | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
said further information was required. The case is said to last | :04:25. | :04:33. | |
three weeks. Francis McDermott is now a university student and was | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
The Police have arrested a 26-year-old man in connection | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
with the murder of a man who was injured during | :04:42. | :04:43. | |
22-year-old Conan Anderson from the Short Strand area | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
of the city, suffered a head injury in the early hours of | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
He was admitted to hospital later that day and died | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
The police are treating a petrol bomb attack on a car belonging | :04:54. | :05:01. | |
to a Sinn Fein election agent as a hate crime. | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
The vehicle was set on fire during the attack | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
County Down shortly after half past ten last night. | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
The car, which was parked in the driveway of the family home, | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
Two masked men were seen in the area at the time. | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
Sinn Fein has described it as an attack on the democratic process. | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
The DUP in the area has asked anyone with information about the attack | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
The widow of the murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane has lost | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
the latest stage in her campaign for a public inquiry | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
Mr Finucane was shot dead by loyalist paramilitaries | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
His widow Geraldine Finucane challenged the former | :05:37. | :05:45. | |
Prime Minister David Cameron over his refusal to order such | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
an inquiry, but today the Court of Appeal dismissed her appeal. | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
It also emerged the police are examining new information | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
There is definitely unfinished business which the court highlighted | :05:53. | :06:06. | |
today. It is a lengthy judgment which we will have to take into | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
consideration. But one thing which we will have to follow is the fact | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
that the police are now investigating all the new evidence | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
A man in his 60s has died following a crash in Bangor. | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
His car was involved in a collision with another vehicle at Cotton Road | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
The Alliance Party Leader Naomi Long has admitted that she called two | :06:31. | :06:39. | |
after her party's election manifesto launch Naomi Long also talked | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
about a Belfast Telegraph story which reported | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
that the Alliance Party had encouraged members to ring | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
a BBC election phone-in with what was described | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
Mrs Long said the story was "a storm in a tea cup." | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
Here is our Political Correspondent Stephen Walker. | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
Not the headlines you want on the day of our manifesto Wunsch. The | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
Belfast Telegraph said the Alliance Party had encourage members to ring | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
in to the Talkback programme with easy questions for Naomi Long and | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
suggested the use a fake name if they wanted to. Naomi Long said this | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
story was a storm in a teacup and the postings were a joke. -- | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
postings. A BBC spokesman said production teams do their best to | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
assess each caller to ensure that contribute to a fair and balanced | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
discussion. Separately Naomi Long admitted she described two Wyman as | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
balloons. Women who had recently resigned from the Alliance Party. -- | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
two women. I think people would be surprised that all I said was | :07:57. | :08:04. | |
balloons. So you did say it? I did. It was the items in the manifesto | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
she wanted to concentrate on. She said this election is about choosing | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
people who are fit to govern. We have been brought hear by a scandal | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
in terms of RHI and how it was handled. Crucially we were brought | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
hereby a breakdown for respect of partners in government. The Alliance | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
Party say they have big plans for a change, including what they say as | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
the abuse of petitions of concern. They want to introduce a single | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
equality Bill and a special status for Northern Ireland after Brexit. | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
They say integrated education should be expanded and they will oppose any | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
repeal of the Human Rights Act. What are they aiming for the same? We | :08:49. | :08:57. | |
would hope to hold our MLAs and we seek opportunities for growth in | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
other areas. I am looking beyond that as well. This is not the only | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
election so we are looking forward to the local council in future | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
elections as well and try to grow the party outside this firm believes | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
we have established. -- firm base. At the last election the Alliance | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
vote went down and the new leaders there is any increase will be | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
regarded as a good vote. The Assembly election is a once | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
in a lifetime opportunity for smaller parties claims | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
the People Before Profit Alliance which won two seats | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
in Stormont last year. The party is calling for an end to | :09:34. | :09:44. | |
corruption, and into links between paramilitaries and the state and to | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
privatisation. It says its job has been made easier because of public | :09:50. | :09:57. | |
fury over the RHI scheme. Last year we were told there was no | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
alternative to austerity, running down education in the health | :10:02. | :10:12. | |
service. The lay-off of public sector workers but now you can just | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
A policy group set up and run by the Department of Education has | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
criticised the impact of academic selection on children. | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
Its report says selection has had what it calls "negative influences." | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
The minister doesn't agree, as our education correspondent | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
A state-run test had been around since the 1940s but scrapped by | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
previous Education Minister a decade ago. | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
But academic selection persists and still | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
Now the Department of education's own advisory body has | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
Their report says that academic selection puts | :10:58. | :11:07. | |
lower achieving pupils into small group schools. | :11:08. | :11:09. | |
Make some primary schoolchildren interested in | :11:10. | :11:11. | |
learning and reinforces social division. | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
One of the experts welcomes their conclusions. The basic evidence has | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
not changed. The same issues are still sitting there but we don't | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
have any political capacity to address the issues so maybe by | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
forcing these issues into open, there can be more creativity and | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
innovation. Legal education should be working in the interests of all | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
our young people. The selective system and other elements is not | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
But although it's from his department, the Education Minister | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
Peter Weir did not set up the forum's inquiry | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
In a statement he said that by setting demanding standards and | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
offering rich educational opportunities, grammar schools can | :11:56. | :11:56. | |
scare impressive outcomes for those who will drive the greatest benefit | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
This is a wide-ranging report and it is actually critical | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
of many aspects of our education system. | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
But Peter Weir has only a short time left in office so it is | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
uncertain who will be responsible for addressing its concerns after | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
What is certain is that battles over academic selection | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
Baroness alone has told the Lords that Assembly election has will be | :12:22. | :12:38. | |
to direct... She also told peers that Brexit will recreate the border | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
between North and South and precipitate a border referendum. | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
There are still a lot of guns in circulation. We still had shootings | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
and things like that so I do not think we can be complacent and | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
suggest that has nothing to worry about. Brexit will recreate the | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
border. Orders are there by the nature devices, this border will | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
attract protests, hostility, violence and significant economic | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
delay. Other borders across Europe will create delays for those who | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
seek to import from the United Kingdom into Europe. Ironically, | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
this border could be the thing that precipitates the demand for another | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
referendum on a united Ireland. The High Court has been told that | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
a new dual carriageway would have a minimal impact on a key | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
wetland with international An Environmentalist | :13:32. | :13:33. | |
is challenging the decision to proceed with a section | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
of the A6 near Toomebridge. Here's our Agriculture | :13:39. | :13:40. | |
and Environment Correspondent Chris and Doris Murphy had | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
a few final submissions to make in opposition | :13:43. | :13:55. | |
the scheme but today was the day the dept of infrastructure | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
This lawyer argued that the contest section of road did | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
not cut through the protected wetland and would take only a small | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
portion of the fields used by the Swans for foraging. | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
The court was told Swans were not unduly | :14:08. | :14:09. | |
concerned by the presence of a road at all. | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
Counsel for the Department said survey work along the existing A6 | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
had shown its ones foraging happily opted out. It is not swans that -- | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
cars that disturb this one spot people. -- disturb this warns. | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
133 landowners along the route had had their land vested | :14:35. | :14:36. | |
If it did not go ahead, the department | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
would be left with the land and the compensation bill. | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
Chris Murphy had made the case that the environmental | :14:43. | :14:44. | |
service which underpinned the decision to proceed in 2016 had been | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
based on information which was almost a decade out of date. | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
But the department's lawyer said the original authorisation for the | :14:50. | :14:51. | |
project had been appropriately given in 2011 so that was no need for an | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
entirely new assessment of its impact on 2016, when the money to | :14:56. | :15:05. | |
The department says the appropriate assessments were done in the | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
information which underpinned the 2016 decision to go ahead with | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
up-to-date. It will now be up to the judge to decide. It will be at least | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
a month before she gives her decision. | :15:20. | :15:19. | |
Back to the election campaign and as March the second approaches | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
we've been visiting various places to get a sample of opinions | :15:26. | :15:27. | |
Newsline's Tara Mills has been to Londonderry | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
The chilly Monday in February probably was not the best | :15:32. | :15:54. | |
the best team to for a | :15:55. | :15:56. | |
But there were some who could not get away. | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
It is a long way from Stormont but those voters thinks his | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
I think the representatives in the north-west are doing a good enough | :16:04. | :16:12. | |
job up there. I know what you're saying, they could not be any | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
farther away by think they are doing a good job. | :16:21. | :16:20. | |
chat on the doorsteps but out on the street was a different story. | :16:21. | :16:30. | |
What issues do you think should be sorted out? Nicky Low Way ahead from | :16:31. | :16:40. | |
the Good Friday Agreement. They are thinking about the children. My | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
grandchildren and great grandchildren coming now. You are | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
thinking about them and what is best for them. | :16:50. | :16:49. | |
At the sheltered housing development residents | :16:50. | :16:51. | |
were more than happy to | :16:52. | :16:52. | |
I'm going to vote? Of course I am going to vote. Do you always vote? I | :16:53. | :17:05. | |
always vote. I think it is right that everybody should vote because | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
they fought long and hard enough to get the vote. It is sorted. Read an | :17:11. | :17:20. | |
Assembly. Are you a supporter of Stormont? -- lead an Assembly. Of | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
course it is needed. In the Waterside, this | :17:28. | :17:29. | |
community Centre is home to Members of the crochet | :17:30. | :17:31. | |
club had lots of Old-age pension for the ladies | :17:32. | :17:46. | |
should be put back to 16, same with men for 65. If you work to 60 you | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
have done enough I think. Let the young people comment. The health | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
service is terrible at the moment, it is all over the news. My children | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
have grown up and they are both working but probably for my | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
grandchildren, the education and the health service. | :18:07. | :18:06. | |
Others do not want to see Stormont collapse for good. | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
Why is it important? Because they do not win it. They know our place | :18:11. | :18:22. | |
although Northern Ireland soothing -- the living lives of the people. | :18:23. | :18:30. | |
They just know better than they do in responding to you. -- in England | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
what the people in that year. -- in England what the | :18:39. | :18:39. | |
people in that year. Most of the people we spoke to had | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
not had any politicians calling to With just over a week left | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
until polling day, there are still some who could | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
be convinced to vote. A Liverpool-based developer has | :18:49. | :18:50. | |
announced a plan to build a George-Best themed | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
hotel in Belfast. Lawrence Kenwright says he intends | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
to develop a total of five hotels This is Lawrence Kenwright at | :19:00. | :19:01. | |
a Belfast City Council event today. It is themed around the legendary | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
football manager Bill Shankly. It is a model for the planned | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
George Best hotel. He has not yet finalised | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
the purchase of his Belfast sites although he says two deals | :19:15. | :19:16. | |
have almost completed. He is looking for unloved | :19:17. | :19:18. | |
buildings with potential. We're looking up mostly of three | :19:19. | :19:33. | |
follow-ups. Buildings that are mostly listed and do not confirm to | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
modern regulations. Because they are listed, you cannot knock down while | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
Belfast is undergoing a hotel building them. | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
The Hastings group are converting this office block | :19:46. | :19:47. | |
There are another five hotels under construction and even more have | :19:48. | :19:55. | |
So can the city take another five on top of what is | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
If the demand for hotel rooms in Belfast continues to grow at 8% per | :20:00. | :20:13. | |
ad -- per annum which is what it has done between 2011 and 2015 then | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
there will be even in the marketplace from 2020 and beyond | :20:19. | :20:19. | |
Baltimore. -- for more details. Mr Kenwright hopes to have his | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
first deal is completed within a few months and first | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
to tell deliberate just nine months These are ambitious plans | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
ambitious timescales. If Mr Kenwright can | :20:33. | :20:34. | |
pull it off he will be one of the biggest | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
hoteliers in Belfast. Ireland fly-half Jonny Sexton | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
trained today and is eligible for selection for Saturday's Six Nations | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
clash with France in Dublin. While that is good news | :20:46. | :20:47. | |
for coach Joe Schmidt, Ulster's Paddy Jackson, who has also | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
worn the number ten shirt in Sexton's absence, | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
is currently the leading points So who will start at fly-half | :20:59. | :21:00. | |
for Ireland this weekend? Jonny Sexton gets picked like | :21:01. | :21:22. | |
everybody else, he has no divine right to be picked. He's done this | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
before, then out for long periods and then come back in has been | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
really good so it is not something which is new to them. When we come | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
to this election over the next 24 hours, will make the decision | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
whether he is ready on whether we stick Paddy. -- stick with Paddy. | :21:41. | :21:52. | |
We are told that a storm is making its way across the Atlantic - | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
Barra Best has been tracking its path. | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
The good news is most of the rain will fall during the early hours. It | :22:01. | :22:08. | |
should clearly by the morning. A bit of a chill in the air tonight. No | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
frost to worry about. And really drive the tomorrow. There will be a | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
westerly winds which will bring in one or two scattered showers. Inland | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
we should stay dry throughout the day, feeling colder than today. | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
Highs of 9 degrees at best and then it will slowly cloud over from the | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
south-west by the afternoon. If you are travelling tomorrow, we will | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
have reason in Central and southern areas. This will make its way | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
northward to moderate -- through tomorrow evening. It will be very | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
wet. Some of the region will be quite heavy. A lot of rain falling | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
in the short amount of time. The Met Office has issued a weather warning. | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
We could say some flooding in areas. Widespread training and on top of | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
that as temperatures tumble, they will introduce a bit of | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
consciousness. -- widespread reason. We could get some flurries of Fleet | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
area on Thursday morning. Courtesy of Storm Doris. It will bring in | :23:26. | :23:34. | |
some cold Arctic area, scattered showers and temperatures will | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
struggle, just 67 degrees. That | :23:43. | :23:43. |